Lens for spectacles or the like.



G. 0. S'CHNBIEER.

ATENTED NOV. 24,1903L LENS FR SPECTACLES (1R THE MRE,

N0 MBEL.

APPLIUATIOH FILED MAY 18, 1903.

' Same.'

Patented November 24, 1%03.

` afinar scies@ LENS FR SPECTACLES OR THE LIKE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,982, dated November 24, 1903.

' Application tiled May 18, 1903. Serial No. 157,614. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LCARL OSCAR SCHNEIDER, acitizen of the United States of-America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lenses for Spectacles or' the Like, of which the following is aspecication.

The present invention relates to concave Alenses use'diu spectacles, eyeglasses, and triallenses, and h-as for its object to provide a simpl and eiiicient construction of such class of lenses which is adapted to avoid the usual objectionable and unsightly reflections or rings which appear in the ordinary form of concave spectacle-lens and with which the required concavity is aiorded with a minimum amount of glass for agi-ven focnsand with a. corresponding degree of' thinness and lightness, all as will hereinafter more fully appear and be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrative of thepresent invention, Figures l to 10, inclusive, are central sections of spectacle or other like lenses embodying the present invention and illustrating various forms of the Fig. 1.1 is an elevation of any one of said lenses.

As heretofore ground concave lenses for spectacles, eyeglasses, and,triallenses were either double concave, periscopic concave, 0r plano concave, withthe surfaces or both sides ground with their respective curvatures to edges of the lens, except as to a slight marginal bevel for engagement withthe holdingframe of the lens. The objections to such construction of concave lenses are'that in the stronger numbers the edges of the lenses are quite thick andthe Weight of the lenses is excessive, with the further and very serions disadvantage thatsuch'thickness in the edges causes objectionable and annoying reflections or rings in the concave portions of such lenses.

To qualify, in a measure, the above defects, a lens known to the trade as the lenticular spectacle lens has been employed and in which a fiat disk of glass has its central'por- .tion ground to the required concavity. Such construction is,however,defe'etive in the same particulars above enumerated, in which the eld is quite restrictedirnless the lens ismade quite thick and heavy and in that the opposite surfaces of the lens-body-are parallelexcept for the small concavity at the center, so that the greater portion of the lens is as thick at the edges as at the rim of the central concavity.

As ndistinguished from the above-described forms of concave lenses for spectacles and the 6o like the presentinvention consists in forming a concave-lens for such uses by grindingacentral concave lens or concavity l of the desired curvature in a main body portion of the required dimensions, and which-body portion is of a double-convex, a plano-convex,or acomponnd convex form. As so formed a concave lens for spectacles and like uses isprn` duced containing a much less quantitytof glass for a concave lensof a given focus and 7o size than it has been possible to produce heretofore. The present invention also renders y it possible to grind a concave lens with thin edges, and thus entirely eliminate the numerous objectionable and annoying i'eflecf 75 tions or rings which appear in a concave lens of the ordinary form. In addition to the foregoing t'he presentinventionaiords a lens of a neat and pleasing appearance,and its thinness/ at the margin permits of a very ready, neat, 8o and substantial attachment to the spectaclerim or-to the straps of a rimless mounting.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the concave lens or curvature 1 of the present` invention is shown as formed on a body portion 2 4having a plano- 85A 'convex or cylindrical form. In Figs. 3 and y 4 such concave lens or curvature -l is shown as formed in both surfaces of a body portion' 2 havinga double-convex -form. In Figs. 5 and 6 such concave lens or curvature l is 9o shown as formed in one surface of a body portion 2 having a double-convoi form,',and

as so made affordsa periscopic concave lens. In Figs. 7 and 8 such concave lens or curvature l is shown -as formed in one surface of a body portion 2 having a double-convex form ,with the opposite surface having a plane portion corresponding in sizeto that of the` curvature 1 aforesaid'. In Figs. 9 and 1Q such concave lens or ,curvature l is shown as api :on plied to the fiat surfaces of two body portions;

2, each of which has a plano-gonvex form" and which are cemented or otherwise secured together in manner shown.

The series of lenses shown in Figs. l, 3, 5, 7, and 9 are companions to the series of lenses sliownvin Figs. 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 and are intended to illustrate in the one series lenses of twenty diopters and in the other series lenses of ten diopters.

Having thus fully described my said invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A concave lens for spectacles and like uses, the/same comprising a lens-body portion having a convex form and provided with a central concave curvature, substantially as set forth.

2..,A concave lens for spectacles and like uses, the same comprising a lens-body portion lhavinga plane-convex form, and provided with a'central concave curvature, substantiall y as set forth.

3. A concave lens for spectacles and like uses, the same comprising a lens-body portion having a plano-convex form, and provided With a central conca ve curvature in the convex surface of such body portion, substantially as set forth.

4. A concave lens for spectacles and like uses, the same comprising a lens-body portion having a convex form, and provided with a central concave curvature in one:surface, and a fiat portion on the other surface correspoudingI in size to the central curvature aforesaid, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 16th day of May, 1903.

CARL OSCAR SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses: 4

ROBERT BURNS, 

